Cookbook to spice up lifeboat station campaign
Montrose Lifeboat Guild members hope venture will raise £10,000 for muster base
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A COOKBOOK featuring recipes from throughout the world has been launched to help raise funds for a new lifeboat station.
Members of the Montrose Lifeboat Guild hope the venture, featuring contributions from as far afield as Canada, will raise £10,000 for the muster station planned for Wharf Street.
The book also contains images of the Scottish coastline from local painters and photographers. A quarter of the 1,000 copies have already been sold following the launch on October 28 and a coffee morning at the weekend.
The lifeboat guild raised money to print the cookbook through sponsorship and advertising, which means every penny from the £10 cover price will go towards the new station.
Guild member Moira Cameron, of King Street, Montrose, said: “At the moment the lifeboat station in Montrose is really inaccessible to the public.
“The new station will be more or less next to the Bamse statue, which will make it more accessible.
“Obviously it will cost a lot of money. We just wanted to try something a little different to raise funds.”
Planning permission has already been granted for the station and construction is expected to start soon.
The Montrose Lifeboat Cookbook is available from Henry Hogg newsagent in the High Street, the Blue Door Gallery in Murray Street or 4 Kidz clothes shop in George Street.
